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Quotes About Fascism

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
~ Ezra Pound
One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism
~ Felix Morrow
I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.
~ Dennis Prager
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
~ Henry A. Wallace
Fascism is not just any politics you don't like. Fascism is the explicit use of political violence, hitting people, killing people, knocking people over, invading an assembly with armed thugs.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Nationalism is the political manifestation of a folk's collective unconscious; heathenism/ satanism is the spiritual manifestation. Both ascend from the same source. Its therefore no coincidence that occultism and nationalism/facism have both claimed common adherents prior to the present interest in both by youth.
~ Michael Moynihan
Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism's raison d'être, the function Hitler himself kept referring to when he talked about saving the industrialists and bankers from Bolshevism.
~ Michael Parenti
What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party's full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power.
~ Michael Parenti
Fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles.
~ Michael Parenti
Fascism is when corporations become the government.
~ Bill Maher
Every woman adores a fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.
~ Sylvia Plath
Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
The truth is that Islam is not like any other faith. It is the religious equivalent of fascism.
~ Fraser Anning
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
~ Loretta Napoleoni
We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.
~ Geert Wilders
En el horizonte lo que se vislumbra es el fascismo y la única forma de evitarlo, de caer en esas arenas movedizas, es recuperando el humanismo.
~ Francisco Martín Moreno
Dad would often say "The next generation will follow anyone who will promise personal peace and affluence. If they are asked to make a choice between freedom and security they'll choose security. It will be the new fascism.
~ Frank Schaeffer
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
~ Timothy D. Snyder
We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.
~ Betty Boothroyd
The Union of the Russian People helped invent a new style of right-wing politics—novel not just for Russia but for most of the world—a politics in a new key oriented toward the masses, public spaces, and direct action, a fascism avant la lettre.
~ Stephen Kotkin
militant Fascism was a natural ally of extortion.
~ Sterling Seagrave